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    Four young creatives named Portfolio Night All-Stars Grand Prize winners

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    Portfolio Night All-Stars Grand Prize winners (from top left, clockwise) Ahmed Shohoud, Amar Selim, Roberto Schettino and Kaisa Kettunen
    NEW YORK --

    The One Club for Creativity has announced the four talented young creatives who were selected as 2025 Portfolio Night All-Stars Grand Prize winners, each receiving a free trip to Creative Week 2026 in New York.

    Established in 2003, Portfolio Night has long been recognized as the world’s largest advertising portfolio review program, taking place in dozens of cities around the world on the same date to help the next generation of creative talent entering the industry.

    A highlight of the program is Portfolio Night All-Stars, where industry professionals from each host city select one young creative in their market with the best portfolios.

    The All-Stars are then assembled into teams and work virtually on a brief, provided and judged by Google, who served as the exclusive global sponsor of this year’s edition of Portfolio Night.

    Based on the brief, the following team of 2025 PN All-Stars was selected as Grand Prize winners:

    Kaisa Kettunen, art director, graphic designer, Helsinki (PN hosted by DDB Nord)
    Amar Salim, art director, graphic designer, photographer, Dubai (PN hosted by Impact BBDO)
    Roberto Schettino, copywriter, Milan (PN hosted by SBAM)
    Ahmed Shohoud, art director, graphic designer, Riyadh (PN hosted by Impact BBDO)

    The Google team managing the Portfolio Night partnership and judging the brief were Sheila Larkin, Google Creative Lab’s talent lead, Natalie Dennis, group creative lead, Greg Calvert, visual designer, and Kevin Koller, group creative director.

    “This year’s All-Stars showed incredible craft, hustle, and heart,” said Google’s Dennis. “The speed at which they came together from around the world, fusing their unique creative perspectives to tackle our Gemini brief, resulted in a showcase that was both insightful and a total joy to watch.”

    While at Creative Week 2026, the PN All-Stars Grand Prize winners will attend The One Show 2026, ADC 105th Annual Awards, Young Ones Student Awards, and One Show Indies awards ceremonies, AI Creative Challenge, and industry networking events.

    Since starting 22 years ago, Portfolio Night has taken place in 70 cities across 45 countries, with more than 13,000 portfolios reviewed.

    This important event, presented by the global non-profit One Club for Creativity, serves as the gateway for young talent to enter the ad industry or find a new job. It enables the best of the present–hundreds of renowned international creative directors at host agencies–to meet and mentor the leaders of the future in industry hubs around the world.

    Portfolio Night has also become a crucial tool for agencies in recruiting top young talent, providing a platform for recognition from local industry peers, and giving agencies a place on the global stage as the ad world tunes in to this one-of-a-kind event.

    Branding for Portfolio Night 2025 was created by 2022 Young Guns Winner, Ana Miminoshvili represented by Glasshouse Artists in North America.

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    Gene Shalit, longtime “Today” show movie critic, dies at 100

    Friday, June 12, 2026
    In this May 31, 2006 file photo, film critic Gene Shalit is seen during a toast with "Today" show cast and crew at the end of Katie Couric's final show, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

    Gene Shalit, a movie critic and arts reporter for the "Today" show over four decades who was known for his puffy hair, oversized handlebar mustache and affection for groan-inducing puns, has died. He was 100.

    Shalit's family announced the death Friday to NBC News, saying in a statement that he "passed away peacefully today after 100 years of an amazing life."

    Shalit joined "Today" as a contributor in 1970 and became arts editor in 1973, later settling in for his segment, "Critic's Corner." When he left the show in 2010, he was one of the last high-profile film critics on a major network.

    "What resonated above his unusual appearance was his incredible wit, his remarkable intelligence. But he didn't pound you over the head with it. He amused you. He enlightened and amused whatever subject he was on," Guy Ludwig, Shalit's producer for more than 20 years, wrote in an essay of his time.

    It was no coincidence that Chicago critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel's local "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" movie-review program, "Sneak Previews," went national on PBS in the late 1970s and that "Today" show's ABC rival, "Good Morning America," hired Joel Siegel to be its movie critic in 1981.

    "Shalit was instrumental in changing the balance of critical power in America. When he began his 'Today' tenure, newspapers and magazines were the primary sources for movie reviews. That's where cinematic opinion was sparked and shaped," The Plain Dealer wrote in 2010, calling Shalit "Daniel Boone in a bow tie and Groucho glasses."

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